On 1 March 1871 the Imperial German Army paraded through Paris to mark their victory in the Franco-Prussian War. The city had been under siege by Prussian forces since September 1870, with Prussia bei
A depiction of the parade
A photograph of the parade
The parade as depicted in the 11 March 1871 Illustrated London News
The parade from a German 1871 book
Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)
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The Treaty of Frankfurt was a peace treaty signed in Frankfurt on 10 May 1871 by the German Empire and the French Third Republic, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War.
Watched by Bismarck, Jules Favre, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, puts his seal on the Treaty of Frankfurt.